Diana Barnato Walker MBE FRAeS (15 January 1918 - 28 April 2008) was an English aviatrix and horse rider, the first British woman to break the sound barrier.
Her father was the famous car racing driver Woolf Barnato who was Chairman of Bentley Motors and also a leading member of their racing team. Her mother was Dorothy Maitland Falk of White Plains, New York.
Diana...
Date of birth:
- 1918
Date of death:
- 2008
